Nuclear Energy Institute Report on Japan’s Nuclear Reactors, November 23, 2011

Japan Legislatures Passes $156 Billion for Rebuilding, Decontamination

Industry/Regulatory/Political

• Japan’s Diet passed legislationto provide $156 billion in disaster reconstruction aid, the third time since the March earthquake that legislators have approved supplemental funding. Of the total, $3 billion is earmarked to fund radiation decontamination efforts, with the majority of the money to be used to rebuild areas devastated by the earthquake and tsunami and to help companies build new manufacturing…